Memoir

Home is a place most would feel safe. It is a place where one has grown up and where they know others from their town. Home is the place where most identify themselves with as being a part of and is proud to proclaim where they come from. In Jesamyn Ward’s memoir Men We Reaped,…

Memoirs are a great method of literature expression that many people have utilized for Over hundreds of years. They can be used as a way for the individual writing it to evaluate themselves and/or display their story for others to read and thus, learn more about them. Sometimes, orally delivering our stories can become difficult…

Jean-Dominique Bauby is an editor for French Elle magazine. He is in his early forties and enjoying life with his young children when he suffers a massive stroke that leaves him completely disabled. Jean’s stroke results in a case known as locked-in syndrome. Jean is paralyzed from the neck down, although he can swivel his…

Wladyslaw Szpilman’s survival in the Warsaw ghetto is nothing short of a miracle. His book, The Pianist, tells the accounts that put his survival into place. It is seen through his experiences that survival in Nazi-Occupied Warsaw comes from his own hands and fate. This duality is shown through how much control Szpilman had over…

Elie’s experience going through concentration camps during the Holocaust at only fifteen years old gives him a unique perspective on human rights. Elie Wiesel, the author of the memoir Night, became a Nobel Peace Prize winner in 1986 for his advocacy of human rights 41 years after the Holocaust. He was without basic human rights…

Everyone has a period of time in their life in which they have experienced events that not only changed their lives but also changed the way they perceive the world. This period of time can end up dictating ones future. For some people it could mean moving to a different country, others it could be…

Many of the Jews went through denial, because the news of the holocaust was to unrealistic to believe. In the novel there were many incidents in which the Jews were in denial. Some of the times when the people faced denial was when Moiche told the townspeople about the camps that were set up and…

Have you ever been in a situation where your faith has been tested? In other words, has there ever been a time in your life when you were struggling a lot, you prayed to god, but situations seemed to be getting worse? If you were, did your faith stay the same, or did you lose…

Paul Monette’s memoir, Becoming a Man: Half a Life Story, depicts the Bostonian’s life and struggle with accepting his sexual orientation. It illustrates Monette’s life from early childhood to when he meets the love of his life, Roger Horwitz, in 1974. Page 54 of the memoir takes place in chapter two, in which Paul recounts…

Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home is a memoir in which Bechdel recounts her childhood in rural Pennsylvania. In a recursive narrative style, the graphic memoir focuses on the relationship between her and her father, Bruce Bechdel. The book bluntly illustrates both persons’ emotional and psychological struggles and how they cope with homosexuality. Many of the panes…